Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a poetry festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather go to Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians who tell her stories that force her to confront her past: the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of poetry itself. The film is about building bridges between cultural and generational divides. It’s about being curious, staying open and finding your own voice through the magic of poetry.
Credits
- Writer
- Ann Marie Fleming
- Producer
- Ann Marie Fleming, Shirley Vercruysse, Michael Fukushima
- Editor
- Editorial team: Ann Marie Fleming, Ileana Pietrobruno, Jean-Denis Rouette
- Sound
- Gordon Durity
- Music
- Taymaz Saba
- Cast
- Sandra Oh; Shohreh Aghdashloo; Nancy Kwan; Omid Abtahi; Camyar Chaichian; Mehdi Darvish; Esme Finley; Nima Gholamipour; Azadeh Khatibi; Eddy Ko; Peyman Maadi; Ramin Mahjouri; Don McKellar; Taylor Mali; Panta Mosleh; Navid Negaban; Azita Sahebjam; Kristen Thomson; Houshang Touzie; Jun Zhu; Elliot Page (credited as Ellen Page)
